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The Annual Michael Benson Lecture

The Annual Michael Benson Lecture was established in 2007 to communicate the work of the Trust to patients, public and staff, and forms part of the Trust's Annual General Meeting (AGM).

Mr Benson MA, MMS, FRCS is a former consultant Children's Orthopaedic Surgeon who retired after 30 years of dedicated service to the Trust. His contribution is marked with this lecture at the AGM followed by a presentation of a plaque engraved each year with the name of the Guest Speaker.

Proposed process for selection of Guest Speaker

Call for nominations with deadline end of June
Nomination Panel meet early July to discuss nominations and select speaker
Selected speaker notified by mid-July to allow sufficient time for speaker to consider topic and for this to be included in AGM invitations

Nomination Panel Members

Chief Executive
Chair
Medical Director
Non-Executive Director
Medical Staffing Committee Chair
Clinical Directors

Quorum

The meeting will be considered quorate if three members of the panel are able to attend. In the event of two applications being equal, the Chair will have the casting vote.

Previous Guest Speakers

2007	Mr Michael Benson, MA, MMS, FRCS, Consultant Children's Orthopaedic Surgeon	Children's Orthopaedics
2008	Professor Graham Russell, FRS, PhD, DM, FRCP, FRCPath, FMedSci Norman Collisson Professor of Musculoskeletal Pharmacology at Oxford University	Translational Research at the Botnar Research Centre
2009	Professor Derick Wade, MA, MB, BChir, FRCP, MD Consultant in Neurological Rehabilitation	"What is holistic health care, and how will the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre excel at it in the future?"
2010	Mr Paul Cooke, MB ChB, FRCSm ChM Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon	"Charcot, the man, the diseases and the NOC"
2011	Professor Andrew Carr, FRCS FMedSci Nuffield Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Head of the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences at the University of Oxford and Divisional Director at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre.	"Science and Surgery"